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post-soviet popular music literature

Piterskii Andegraund

The following list (last updated: 27.06.2016) is taken from the now dormant blog “(post-) soviet popular music” which Sergio Mazzanti and I started and contributed to. The main goal is to provide an extensive bibliography on academic literature on popular music in the former Soviet Union and the countries which emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. If you know of any titles missing, please let me know! Thank you!

Books / Книги

Amico, Stephen: “Roll Over, Tchaikovsky! Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet Homosexuality”, University of Illinois Press 2014

Heller, Dana: “‘Russian body and soul’: t.A.T.u. performs at Eurovision 2003”. In:Raykoff, Ivan; Tobin, Robert (eds.): “A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest”, Ashgate (Aldershot) 2007, p. 111-122

McMichael, Polly: “‘After all, you’re a rock and roll star (at least, that’s what they say)’: Roksi and the Creation of the Soviet Rock Musician”, The Slavonic and East European Review 83:4 (2005), p. 664-684

McMichael, Polly: “Prehistories and Afterlives: The Packaging and Re-packaging of Soviet Rock”, Popular Music and Society 32:3 (2009), p. 331 – 350

Sonevytsky, Maria: “The Freak Cabaret on the Revolution Stage: On the Ambivalent Politics of Femininity, Rurality, and Nationalism in Ukrainian Popular Music”, Journal of Popular Music Studies (2016) – dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpms.12174